Thank God for memory loss!

'S-she doesn't remember!' Rowan felt a wave of joy wash over him.

"Ahhh, Kira!" He said as he threw up his hands. "I'm so glad your okay best friend!" He was now standing there awkwardly. Felix had already left after setting him up to die.

"Friend? I only have one friend and that's not you." She was un packing her small bag.

"How so?" Rowan asked, nervously laughing.

"For starters he was a guy."

"I-I'm also a guy?" Rowan stated but it came out more as a question. 'Curse your pretty face Onyx.'

"Plus I would never befriend such a newbie." Kira continued.

'I forgot people can see my information. She's at a way higher level and I don't have true sight…" Rowan thought nervously. 'Think!'

"Hahaha, those are fake! I already told you, didn't I? I used a skill to put fake information on my character profile!" Rowan said, hoping Kira wouldn't catch onto his lie.

"Such a skill exists?"

"Yeah! But you probably wouldn't need it since you're such a famous player!" Rowan spoke, finally feeling safe enough to enter the room. He closed the door and walked over to the bed on the other side.

"Mmhm. So I'm guessing you ranked 6th on purpose as well?" She asked.

"Yeah. Hahaha!" Rowan awkwardly laughed.

She stared at him for a while before going back to what she was doing. She had a little bag she was digging in for something.

'It seems I'm safe for now.' Rowan finally let go of the breath he was holding.

"You're a whole liar." Onyx snickered from his neck.

"Shut up."

He walked over to the side of the bed where his stuff was. He looked through the pockets and thankfully all his items were there, covered by the black cloak. Only things missing were his branches and seeds.

"Damn it." He cursed to himself. 'I'm going to have to find some tomorrow.'

"Schedule." Rowan said and a screen popped out. He looked toward the column with the date of tomorrow.

[ Day 2:

One on one

Morning

CZMT VS Ikra

And

Tamebot VS Massin

Afternoon

H0gal VS Rowan Enzo

And

Xenon Aize VS Tanon zayliegh]

*SLAM!*

"UEgH!" Rowan yelled, as the door slammed shut. 'Why does she have to slam the door!?'

"Of course they would want the stronger players to fight in the afternoon." Onyx spoke as Rowan looked back to the screen. "That's the main event. There are two players missing though."

Rowan read through the pairings. 'Yeah. I wonder what that's about. I'm wondering even more why im not in last place. I mean I only had two digit evaluation.'

"Close."

"So I'm not up in the morning. I'll just go and explore then, I can watch the fights through a channel." Rowan started getting on the bed.

"Are you seriously about to sleep right now?" Onyx asked, slithering off his neck.

"What else should I do?" Rowan asked."It is too fucking bright though. Is there no night here or something?"

"GO AND EXPLORE. You have the bedtime of a grandma!" Onyx has been dreaming of being in this building since he got to this planet. Now that he was here he wanted to make the most of it.

"Well I'm sorry I don't like having eye bags!" Rowan retorted. "Some of us actually take care of ourselves!"

*POOF*

"Hey!" Talis spoke as he appeared out of nowhere.

"AHHHHH!" Both onyx and Rowan yelled.

'Oh thank god Kira isn't here!'

"YOU CAN TELEPORT!?" Onyx screamed. He was confused before on how many powers Talis had, but teleportation was the limit.

"Yup!" Talis smirked, getting ready to brag.

"I can shapeshift…" he turned into a crow.

"Teleport…." He appeared on the other side of the room.

"Enlargement…." He suddenly became the size of Rowan.

"Telepathy…" he floated in place for a while.

"...heyyyy~"

Rowan heard a voice in his head.

"Damn!" He exclaimed.

Talis stood proud with a giggle.

"How is that possible!?" Onyx asked, still not having it.

"I have a different system than you players. Just like players have a different system from sales men." Talis explained. "That's why I'm able to pull things out of thin air. How do you think I can fit into the drones that film you?"

"Dang! I should've tried to be a streamer!"

"Too bad you can't change your decision once it's made! Plus you already signed to me so if you decide to run there will be consequences. Hehehehe." Talis laughed as Rowan started getting ticked off.

"You're done. Now get out." He said in a cold tone.

"Aww don't be like that! Speaking of streamers, I will start the stream again tomorrow so you better get ready." Talis was floating in a circle. "If you make things boring I'll kill you!" He said with a smile.

"Wait so then I'll only be seen on your channel?"

"You see, I'm a group streamer. So I can make contacts with 4 to 5 people and stream them. You can still be seen on public streams, but you will get more attention with me."

"So with you I can connect more with fans and stuff. Get more attention?"

"Yeah pretty much. This all changes if you get a solo or crew channel though."

"You have been out for a month right? Aren't your viewers mad?"

"He's a flop streamer." Onyx spoke up, giving Talis the side eye. "His last reincarnation died and he didn't have that many viewers from the beginning…."

"That's why I reincarnated you by force!" Talis said in a cheery tone.

"Why the fuck are you proud of that?" Rowan asked.

"Anyways I said what I needed to say so I'm out!"

*POOF!*

Talis disappeared as abruptly as he had appeared, leaving Rowan and onyx feeling drained.

"Ugh I don't even feel like sleeping anymore." Rowan spoke before he got up and walked to the door.

"Good, good. Let's go explore." Onyx went to slither up Rowan's leg to his neck.

They left their room, making sure to slowly close the door. Once they were out there was a huge hallway, leading left to right. 5 of the dorms were lined up on one side of the wall, the doors having quite an amount of space between.

*BANG*

The door to the left of Rowan suddenly slammed open, startling the two. The guy with fangs came out, angrily walking. He looked towards Rowan before turning and walking to where Felix had led Rowan out of.

'That's stairs to Vyen's room.' Rowan thought. He didn't think too much into it and walked the opposite way.

The building was made in a way that it circled the stadium. On one side, there was the square where the players all entered and on the other side was the waiting room. Above that is the small room where W enters through connected to the room of The 10 and then the headmasters.

As far as Rowan knew there were only 3 floors with the bottom one only containing the waiting rooms. The middle contained the gym, cafeteria, dorms, and many more. It was the main floor while the top one was just for the headmaster's room it seemed. Only one staircase led to it while the other staircase was opposite it.

Every dorm room had a window showing the ring that could be covered by a white curtain. 3 of the dorms were on one side of the cafeteria while 2 were on the other, making the rookies share a room between 2.

"The dorms are actually inside it looks like. Some people use to say they were outside." Onyx spoke.

"Yeah. I guess we're being kept near the headmasters in case of a fight or something." Rowan was walking with his hands in his pockets.

"It could also be because of attacks." Onyx pointed out.

"Attacks? We could get attacked!?"

"Actually, this stadium has been attacked every time a competition was held." Onyx told him.

"What the hell? So it's a normal occurrence?"

"Of course. Like I said before, not all players are good and not all viewers are good either. Some like to watch people just be evil and do bad things."

"Oh wow. Shouldn't be a problem for me though." Rowan bit his bottom lip and tried to strike a pose.

Onyx raised his lip in disgust as he watched Rowan flex his muscleless arm. "You're not even all that. Calm yourself."

"What are you talking about? I'm all that and more. They won't put a scratch on me for real!"

The two were finally nearing a light that came off a door to the right wall. Since the whole building was in an oval-like shape, it felt like Rowan was walking in circles through the narrow halls. He peaked his head in, and so did onyx. They were met with hospital beds that were lined up with curtains that separated them.

'Oh. I'm guessing if you survive a fight you're brought here to heal.' Rowan thought.

He took a step in, looking around to see if there were any people around.

"Oh, Rowan!"

A familiar voice called out to him. He looked to see who it could be behind the curtain. Moving it out of the way he came into contact with a red head he hasn't seen in a while.

"HUNTER!? You made it?" Rowan happily spoke. He was excited to see a familiar, non threatening face for the first time in a while. It seemed everybody around him was just mad for no reason so seeing Hunter's smiling face was a breath of fresh air.

"Barely…" Hunter spoke weakly.

Rowan sat at his feet, making himself comfortable.

"But I didn't see you among the remaining people." He asked Hunter.

"The competition needs ten people…" he said quietly. "Once there are 10 people remaining, the fighting can stop. W always explains it as 'the last man standing' so people can keep fighting." He chuckled. "Once I counted 10 people I lowered my guard and got knocked out by someone."

"Oh!" Rowan exclaimed. "That's great we both made it through the 1st day!"

"Yes but I'll have to go fight again tomorrow." Hunter was a mess. He was bruised and cut everywhere, his skin being almost fully purple. Rowan took a look at his bar and it was in the red, almost completely depleted.

"What already?"

"I'm Tamebot." A slight blush showed on his face. "Don't judge, I made it when I was younger."

Rowan chuckled.

"Well at least they will heal you right?"

"They could but it's pretty expensive…."

*COUGH, COUGH*

"Hey, hey." Rowan said as he stood up.

"It seems his lungs got fucked up. He might have had some internal bleeding as well." Onyx said from the rowans neck.

He slithered down to the bed and got on Hunter's chest. Hunter took in a sharp breath of pain as onyx started to glow. After some time, Hunter glowed as well. His pained face started to relax, and he started breathing properly. Rowan watched as Onyx's Ahi bar lowered while Hunter's rose.

'Is onyx sharing the Ahi he's been storing?' Rowan thought, watching onyx get smaller.

"That should be enough." He spoke as he slithered off of Hunter. "This will speed up the process of healing."

"Thanks a lot!" Hunter's voice started sounding a lot better than before.

After some chit chat and catching up on thing's, Rowan got up and started to leave the room. He didn't want to keep Hunter up too long because he had to fight in the morning. Saying their goodbyes, Rowan closed the door and started walking in the direction he was before.

"Dang. I can't believe you have to pay to not die." Rowan chuckled a little.

"Yeah everything here is about the coins." Onyx replied. "You're broke? You die. He should be fine though since I gave him a considerable amount of my own Ahi."

"Thank god you were there since I need my Ahi to defend myself, and I have no coins." Rowan said, scratching the back of his head. With the little trick that Talis had pulled, Rowans had not received a single coin and his pockets were still starving.

He walked around some more, checking out the cafeteria, gym, and the other places that were available. It was all so spacious and big that Rowan got tired very quickly. His endurance really wasn't the best, so he struggled to make it back to his room before crumbling onto his bed.